Eurygeophilus pinguis (Brölemann, 1898)
Synonyms
Chalandea pinguis (Brölemann, 1898)
Status:
- GB IUCN status: Least Concern
- GB rarity status: Nationally Rare
ID Difficulty
Identification
Eurygeophilus pinguis is a pale yellowish-brown centipede (to 20 mm) of characteristic short stout appearance, with 35 (male) to 37 (female) leg pairs. It is said to look like a "Haplophilus cut in half".
More information to allow accurate identification is given in the published identification keys by Tony Barber (2008 & 2009).
Distribution
Eurygeophilus pinguis is a rare centipede is known from a handful of sites in north Devon where it was first found during a BMG field meeting in 1970 and more recently from two sites in Cornwall. It is possibly overlooked at other sites in this area.
Habitat
In Devon it is usually associated with deciduous trees. The Cornish sites are an ornamental garden and a domestic garden.
This account is based on the 'Centipede Atlas' (Barber, 2022).
Links
ChiloBase 2.0 - World Catalogue of Centipedes: https://chilobase.biologia.unipd.it/searches/result_species/3924
BRC code
16
idBmigTaxa
Cen_134